Dogs bite 2 people

1 owner ticketed

May 27, 2005

Two people were bitten by unleashed dogs Thursday in Chicago, according to the Chicago Commission on Animal Care and Control.

A pit bull bit a 12-year-old boy in the right foot and leg on the city's Northwest Side, said Sandra Alfred, the commission's acting executive director. The attack occurred at 8:53 a.m. in the 4200 block of North Drake Avenue when the pit bull jumped over a neighbor's fence, bit another dog and then bit the boy. Police shot the dog, Alfred said.

Francisco Akins, the owner of the pit bull, signed over the dog, and it was destroyed by animal control, Alfred said. Akins was issued three citations for failure to restrain, having no dog license and not having his dog vaccinated, Alfred said.

In a separate incident, a 55-year-old man was bitten in the right forearm at 4:10 p.m. as he walked past a parking lot in the 3300 block of North Cicero Avenue, Alfred said. The white mixed-breed dog was seized. An investigation is ongoing, she said.